Policy Implications of Virtual Work

Part 1: Concepts and debates.- 1.- Introduction: The policy implications of virtual work; Pamela Meil and Vassil Kirov.- 2. Where did Online Platforms come from? The virtualization of work organization and the new policy challenges it raises; Ursula Huws.- Part 2: Measuring virtual work.- 3. Crowd employment and ICT-based mobile work - new employment forms in Europe; Irene Mandl and Maurizio Curtarelli.- Part 3: Discourses and Principles of Regulation.- 4. Regulating the void: Online participatory cultures, user-generated content, and the Digital Agenda for Europe; Bjarki Valtysson.- 5. The Imperative of Code: labor, regulation and legitimacy; Shenja van der Graaf and Eran Fisher.- Part 4: Sharing, cooperating and streaming in the digital economy.- 6. Assessing Music Streaming and Industry Disruptions; Daniel Nordgård.- 7. Information Communication Technologies, citizens, and parliament in Portugal: the continued e-democracy gap and lessons from the Obama experience; Carlos Cunha and Filipa Seiceira.- 8. Sharing Economy as an urban phenomenon: Examining policies for Sharing Cities; Silvia Mazzucotelli Salice and Ivana Pais.- Part 5: Organizing, Protecting and Regulating Labor.- 9. Workers, Contradictions and Digital Commodity Chains: Organizing with Content Creators in Canada; Karen Wirsig and James Compton.- 10. Digitalization of public services in Europe: policy challenges for the European trade union movement; Vassil Kirov.- 11. The Legal Protection of Crowdworkers: Four Avenues for workers' rights in the virtual realm; Jeremias Prassl and Martin Risak.